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+2015-06-17 Andrew J. Schorr <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>
+
+ * inplace.3am: Document new inplace variable to control whether
+ inplace editing is active.
+
2015-05-19 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
* 4.1.3: Release tar ball made.
diff --git a/extension/inplace.3am b/extension/inplace.3am
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-.TH INPLACE 3am "Apr 08 2015" "Free Software Foundation" "GNU Awk Extension Modules"
+.TH INPLACE 3am "Jun 17 2015" "Free Software Foundation" "GNU Awk Extension Modules"
.SH NAME
inplace \- emulate sed/perl/ruby in-place editing
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -32,6 +32,13 @@ rule or on the command line, then the
extension concatenates that suffix onto the original
filename and uses the result as a filename for renaming
the original.
+.PP
+One can disable inplace editing selectively by placing
+.B inplace=0
+on the command line prior to files that should be processed normally.
+One can reenable inplace editing by placing
+.B inplace=1
+prior to files that should be subject to inplace editing.
... .SH NOTES
... .SH BUGS
.SH EXAMPLE